Rocky Point Drive-In
115 North Country Road,
Rocky Point,
NY
11778
115 North Country Road,
Rocky Point,
NY
11778
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The Rocky Point Drive-In was located just north of Route 25A in Rocky Point. It was another UA owned theater.
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Oh, I don’t really care about shopping center cinemas to take pix.
You also missed the remnants of the Skyway Drive-In outside of Greenport. All that’s left is the pylon which is used by a Lutheran Church. But, if memory serves me correctly, this is not on Main Road but one that parallels it.
We went to the Rocky Point Drive-In, back in the 70’s. Our mother would have us bathed and in our jammies before we went. I too, remember seeing Grease and Xanadu, as some others have mentioned. I can remember the concession stand. My Dad would go stand in line and bring the food back to the car. My favorite was the egg rolls. I always paired it with a Yoo-Hoo.
On Thursday nights, my mother would take us to the McDonalds and sometimes the Carvel…mmm…the chocolate and strawberry bonnets! Sears Surplus was where our school clothes came from every year. (Back when Andrew Muller was Miller Place Primary School and Laddie Decker was a just-built Sound Beach School. Our first day there, the teachers were on strike!)
Someone needs to have some vision and open a drive-in on Long Island again. Westbury still made money to the day it closed.
If we were allowed to get a 2nd treat I always chose an eggroll and Yoo-Hoo too! I was terrified of the bathrooms, would not go by myself for the longest time, I think it was because of the exposed plumbing and dim lighting. I remember the original Carvel on 25A on the north-west corner of Hallock Landing. It was the old walk-up style the front facade was slanted, later it moved down by the drive-in. I always got a chocolate cone with chocolate or rainbow sprinkles. Shopped at Sears Surplus alot, the manager (tall bald guy) for some reason pegged me as a potential shop-lifter and would follow me around. So I would pick up merchandise walk around then set it down somewhere else, drove him nuts.
Well, if you were at the new Carvel you were next to the Rocky Point Cinema. Any recollections on it? When I established it on CT I was working from personal recollections and an article in the Port Jefferson Echo.
I remeber the Cinema, 1st year or 2 it showed regular movies then turned X-Rated. The only movie I can remeber seeing was a western, Judge Roy Bean(?). When the kids I hung out with started coming of age we always talked about going to see a XXX but it was all bluster we never went. The indoor movie theaters that I went to on a regular basis were the East Setauket Fox, saw Gone with The Wind for the 1st time on the “big screen” as compared with years of watching it on TV in B&W, it was amazing. Also the Brookhaven in Port Jefferson Station, I remember when they had a Herbie (The Lovebug) in the lobby. When it became a $1.00 theater we went just about every week.
Check out New York Drive-Ins.com has some photos, and newspaper clippings about the Drive-In. It opened June 16th 1961, closed in 1988.
miss the point – perhaps you could post some of your recollections on the Rocky Point Cinema on that site.
Did it have a sloping floor? What was unique about it?
When I used to summer in Rocky Point we went to the Brookhaven. There was no Drive In in the early 1950s.
robboehm – I’ve posted an entry as you suggested. Mainly about the drive-in, since that holds the most memories for me, last paragraph does pertain to the cinema but is lacking as I really do not recall much about the cinema.